Speakers

Join us for this inspiring event featuring our esteemed Keynote Speakers, with the full lineup to be revealed soon.

Paola Cinnella

Paola Cinnella is a full professor in Fluid Mechanics at Sorbonne University in Paris and member of the Jean Le Rond D’Alembert Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari in Italy in 1995, she received her Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1999.

Her research field is in Computational Fluid Dynamics and related topics, including optimization, uncertainty quantification, and data-driven modelling, with application to compressible and turbulent flows in Aerospace and Energy applications. She is Editor in Chief of Computers & Fluids, associate editor of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, editorial board member for Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, scientific Secretary of the International Conference in Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD) and coordinator of the Scientific Interest group “Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics” of ERCOFTAC (European Research Community in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion).

Hrvoje Jasak

Hrvoje Hasak is the Gianna Angelopoulos Professor of Continuum Physics, at the Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He also holds a Professorship at the University of Zagreb and a Mercator Fellowship at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Furthermore, he is one of the two original co-authors of OpenFOAM, Chair of the OpenFOAM Numerics Technical Committee and a member of OpenFOAM Governance Steering Committee.

He is also the founder and managing director of Wikki Ltd.

Hrvoje Jasak has a first degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Zagreb (1992), and a Ph.D. in CFD from Imperial College London, with Prof. A.D. Gosman (1993-1996).

He was a Senior Development Engineer at CD-adapco (now Siemens PLM) (1996-2000), Technical Director at Nabla Ltd (2000-2006), and has worked on new generation software at Ansys-Fluent Inc. (2000-2008).

Andreas Otto

Andreas Otto is Professor for Photonic Technologies at the Technische Universität Wien (AT). He graduated in Physics from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (GE) in 1992, where he also obtained his Ph.D. (1997) and his teaching qualification (2002) for Manufacturing Technology. There, he headed the groups Laser Manufacturing and Laser Process Simulation at the Chairs for Manufacturing Technology and for Photonic Technologies, respectively. In 2011, he earned the Professorship of Laser Technology at TU Wien and has since headed the Research Unit of Photonic Technologies.

He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of laser material processing, with over 30 years of experience in photonic technologies and a strong background in physics and process diagnostics. The investigation of numerous forms of laser processes by means of multiphysical simulations occupies a central role in his research.

He has authored more than 250 publications and has been honored as an invited or keynote speaker at over 25 international conferences. He is a board member of the Austrian Scientific Society of Production Engineering (ÖGWP) and spokesperson of the Austrian Laser Production Innovation Network (ALPIN).

Stefan Pirker

Stefan Pirker is Professor for Fluid Mechanics and the Head of Department for Particulate Flow Modelling, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer at Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz (Austria). In 1996 he graduated in Mechatronics at JKU, where he completed with distinction his PhD on “Modelling, Simulation and Visualization of Metallurgical Flows” (2001). After his Habilitation (2011) he was working as the Scientific Key Researcher in the K1MET competence center, and the Head of the Christian-Doppler Laboratory on Particulate Flow Modelling.

His main research interest is the numerical modelling of particulate flows with special emphasis on multi-scale model synthesis. This involves embedded co-simulations and sub-grid models, hybrid Eulerian and Lagrangian simulations as well as recurrence models for efficient time extrapolation of full CFD simulations. The outcome of his research group has been disseminated by open-source codes (Liggghts, CFDEMcoupling) and by to date more than 200 publications in scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings.

 

Alfio Quarteroni

 

Alfio Quarteroni is Professor Emeritus at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Professor Emeritus at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is the founder of MOX at Politecnico di Milano (2002) and first director (2002-2022), the founder (2010) and first director (2010-2015) of MATHICSE at EPFL, the co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF.

He has been Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL, from 1998 until 2017. Formerly, he has been full professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (2000-2002) and full professor and Department Chair at Catholic University of Brescia (Italy) (1986-89).

He is the author of 24 books (several of them with multiple editions and translated into several languages), editor of 12 books, author of more than 400 papers published in international Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals and Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer.
 

Alfredo Soldati

Alfredo Soldati is Universitäts-Professor for Fluid Mechanics at Technische Universität Wien (AT). He graduated in nuclear engineering (1989) and obtained his Ph.D. (1993) from Università di Pisa (IT). His main research interests are centered on the physics of multiphase turbulent flows, with the focus on environmental and industrial applications.

He was Professore Ordinario at Università di Udine (IT), Visiting Scientist at Kavli Inst. Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (USA), Guest Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (IT) and Professeur Invité at Inst. National Polytechnique, Toulouse (FR) and Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne (CH). Furthermore, he is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Associate Editor in ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, and Editor in Acta Mechanica.

Alfredo Soldati received the Freeman Scholar Award (2020), he is a Fellow of the European Society of Mechanics (2020) and Fellow of the American Physical Society (2013), and he is Rector at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences - CISM (IT).